From @nwc10

The character length of a string is cached in the magic struct in an I32.
There's a work around in Perl_sv_len_utf8() to avoid storing overlong values
and consequentially panicking the cache verification code, but that remains
a work around, rather than a solution.

Nicholas Clark

From @cpansprout

On Thu Feb 18 07​:42​:48 2010, nicholas wrote​:

The character length of a string is cached in the magic struct in an I32.
There's a work around in Perl_sv_len_utf8() to avoid storing overlong
values
and consequentially panicking the cache verification code, but that
remains
a work around, rather than a solution.

This was fixed as a side-effect of 6174b39. I removed the workaround in
ab0894e.

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